Following a multi-year, multi-million dollar renovation by the Bates Golf Design Group, Bayonet Black Horse Golf Club, Seaside, Calif., has retained Buffalo Communications to provide media relations and publicity services to enhance its national profile. During the course of the renovation, wholesale changes were made to routings, corridors and view sheds, to take advantage of…
Rober Launch Joins Sandestin as VP of Finance
Sandestin® Golf and Beach Resort in Destin, Fla., announced the appointment of Robert M. Launch as vice president of finance. Launch joins Sandestin after serving as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Sterling Resorts and Sterling Realty, LLC. Prior to that, he was vice president of accounting administration at Resortquest International, a subsidiary…
Rock Manor Golf Course Opens New Clubhouse
Rock Manor Golf Course—located in Wilmington Dela. and managed by Billy Casper Golf.—has opened its renovated, circa-1921, stone-façade clubhouse, the final piece of a major course and property overhaul completed over the past two years. Restored to retain the flavor of its original structure, with the distinctive stone fireplace preserved as the centerpiece, Rock Manor’s…
Kenny Pepper Named Golf Sales Manager For Camelback & Wildfire Golf Clubs
Marriott Golf announced that Kenny Pepper has been promoted to Golf Sales Manager for Camelback and Wildfire Golf Clubs, two of the leading golf facilities in the Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona region. Pepper first joined the Marriott team in June 2006 as Golf Sales Coordinator for Camelback and Wildfire Golf Clubs. Wildfire Golf Club, located at the…
Princeville’s Makai Golf Course Begins Major Renovation Project
The 27-hole Princeville Makai Golf Course, which opened in 1971 in Hawaii on Kauai’s north shore, has begun a multi-million dollar renovation that will continue until late summer 2009. The course renovations are being implemented in conjunction with the renovation of The Princeville Hotel, which shares the same ownership as the Makai Golf Course. The…
Clubs Seek Creative Solutions To Economic Challenges
Tee times and tennis sets will not fall victim to the faltering economy, at least not without a fight. With the economy forcing many citizens to reassess leisure spending in the face of the rising cost of bare necessities and plummeting investment portfolios, properties across the country are being challenged to find new ways to…
Dan Dinelli Earns National Environmental Award
The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) board of directors has selected Dan Dinelli, GCSAA certified golf course superintendent at North Shore Country Club in Glenview, Ill., to receive its 2009 President’s Award for Environmental Stewardship. Dinelli, a third-generation golf course superintendent and contributor to Club & Resort Business, has been at North Shore…
Nike Golf Appoints Francis to U.S. GM and Grissinger to EMEA GM
Nike Golf announced the appointment of Mike Francis to U.S. General Manager and Stan Grissinger to General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) effective by December 1, 2008. Francis will be succeeding Cindy Davis, who was recently promoted from U.S. General Manager to the position of President, and Grissinger will assume Francis’ role.…
Wilderness Territory Completes Glacier Canyon Expansion
Glacier Canyon Lodge Conference Center, located adjacent to the Wilderness Hotel & Golf Resort in Wisconsin Dells, recently completed a 31,471 square foot addition. The expansion includes a second ballroom room, measuring 14,823 square feet, capable of accommodating groups of up to 1,611 theater style and 1,200 banquet style. The space can also be divided…
Fort Mill Golf Club Unveils Results of Comprehensive Renovations
Fort Mill (S.C.) Golf Club has unveiled the results of a comprehensive $3 million renovation program. The unveiling of the course renovation marks a pair of milestones at Fort Mill; the 60th Anniversary of its Donald Ross-designed front nine which opened in 1948, and the 50th Anniversary next year of its George Cobb-designed back nine…
Playable Hours Flat in September
September’s national weather came in statistically dead even in Golf Playable Hours (GPH) at +.5% compared to the same period last year, according to a report by Pellucid, a golf industry information and consulting firm based in Buffalo Grove, Ill. This flat month nonetheless closes a favorable 3rd quarter of weather, which recorded a 5%…
Tuscawilla CC Promotes Flint to Head Tennis Pro & Lynch to Associate Tennis Pro
Tuscawilla Country Club, in Winter Springs, Fla. recently announced that long-time employee Marilee Flint has been promoted to Head Tennis Professional. In addition, the club has appointed Tim Lynch to the position of Associate Tennis Professional. Most recently, Lynch spent 12 years as tennis professional (head professional since 2006) at Red Bug Lake Park in…
Pellegrino to Lead Les Mills sales in U.S.
Les Mills International has appointed Sal Pellegrino to the new role of National Sales Director in the USA. Sal joins Les Mills from fitness equipment company Precor, where he was National Account Manager for 11 years. He was previously East Coast Sales Manager for equipment-supplier Stairmaster for 13 years, and has owned and operated two…
Sun Valley Resort Appoints Jeffrey Petersen as Director of Golf
Sun Valley (Idaho) Resort today announces that Jeffrey Petersen has been named the Director of Golf. Petersen, a member of the PGA of America, has served as the Head Professional at Sun Valley Resort since 2005.
New Golf Architecture Book Explores Course Design
Michael Patrick Shiels, a Michigan-based author, collaborated with over 100 golf course architects to create “Secrets of the Great Golf Course Architects,” which will be released nationwide by Sky Horse Publishing in late October. The book, featuring, personal, first-hand career tales and hand-drawn sketches and renderings, is a cooperative literary effort between the esteemed members…